Testosterone loss has been a popular topic in men’s health news, and we at ForMen have been doing our part to cover it (see here, here and here).
And now for the latest: A recent study on 83,000 veterans provides some evidence that testosterone therapy can work. And not only can it work, but researchers found that patients with low testosterone levels, who received testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), could be at lower risk for heart attack or stroke.
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The study—the largest to-date on TRT and with the longest follow-up period—involved men who were treated between December 1999 and May 2014 at the Kansas City VA Medical Center. Sixty-three percent of the men achieved normal testosterone levels with TRT, and that group had significant fewer deaths and cardiovascular events than the group that did not. The study demonstrates that significant benefit is observed only if the dose is adequate to normalize the testosterone levels.
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The researchers emphasized that their study does not draw any definitive conclusions about TRT and that further long-term follow-up is needed.
It’s important to note that previous studies have shown that testosterone therapy can increase the risk of heart attack or stroke and has been linked to other scary effects such as causing faster-growing prostate cancers, blood clots and sleep apnea.
Curated article from the Washington Post
